Comment Quote by Donna Tartt

The good things in history are usually of very short duration, but afterward have a decisive influence on what happens over long periods of…

— Hannah Arendt

Also, people are not often aware of the way the United States' policies influence what happens in places like Haiti or El Salvador or…

— Edwidge Danticat

“What happens outide of you has an influence. Yet what happens within you has the final say.”

— Ralph Marston

How we see and hold the full range of our experiences in our minds and in our hearts makes an enormous difference in the…

— Jon Kabat-Zinn

Like everyone else, there are days when I don't want to go to work. However, writing is a job like anything else.

— Francine Rivers

Back to work. If I’m [writing] I’m not thinking about the crazy.

— Faith Hunter

There's less skill and more plain hard work to writing than anyone except a writer thinks.

— Mabel Seeley

I usually don't have to do a lot of research in my work, as I'm writing about something I'm already familiar with.

— Amy Bloom

That's the hard work of writing. The imagining.

— Jincy Willett

“However, just like any line of work, writing is a negotiation, and creative control is as elusive as financial stability. I discovered that writing…

— Alice Driver

The more interesting the 9-to-5 work is, the more it takes away from my real work, which is writing.

— Judith Rossner

We have to diversify, we have to find work we can do that helps other people while helping ourselves, work that has to do…

— Alice Mattison